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Post by Grubrot Zodd on Mar 3, 2009 22:12:49 GMT -5
Name:Agular Fernin Devis
Age:36
Home: In village with old shaman
Occupations: Farmer
Former Bodyguard for religious officials
Flagellant
Poor -(but can feed himself)
Post traumatic stress disorder-
Bad Reputation-
No Family--
Muscluar decay-
Age-
Old Shaman's Help *
Knowledge Religion *
Knowledge Farming *
Flagellant ***
Mace Skill *
Stamina **
Will ***
Bodyguard backround *
Abilities:
Flagellate-whips self into a faith fueled frenzy,increased pain resistance and stamina
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 3, 2009 22:29:16 GMT -5
Looks fine. But where did you pick up the mace skills? And why is your Strength so high? Are all your farming jobs heavy lifting and heavy work?
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Post by Grubrot Zodd on Mar 3, 2009 23:42:16 GMT -5
well the mace would be self taught I would think,atleast from using them for a very long time, even on himself. The strength would come from both heavy labor for the town and himself, and flagellating itself would be very intensive,
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 4, 2009 1:05:09 GMT -5
There's no way you'll be at ** in Mace from being self-taught. You would have to have some formal militia experience. Remember that you are in a poor, peasant society with no cars, few libraries, and very limited stores of information on hand. You can't just go to a karate or self-defense class.
And flagellating oneself in a poor society like this would not only NOT lead to strength (it might lead to stamina, endurance or pain tolerance, all of which you will need), but might lead to the DECAYING of muscles due to blood loss and poor medical care. Pictures and anecdotal accounts of flagellants from the period were in fact of very malnourished, thin people, especially since most of them were also ascetics, frequently fasting.
We also may want to identify the exact pathology so you're not just a pastiche. Perhaps you are bipolar and the endorphins released allow you to self-medicate during depressive periods.
I should also note that flagellants tended to rise later on during the beginning of the bourgeois era. When societies start getting wealth, guilt over the wealth causes some people to express bizarre ridiculous views. Flagellating is just too dangerous and self-aggrandizing to do when there's harvest to be had. So we'll want to explain what particularly causes you to do so.
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Post by Grubrot Zodd on Mar 5, 2009 22:14:11 GMT -5
you're right about the mace part, I'll adjust the stats, as for the flagellant part, he could just be a peasant who has been unlucky enough to have seen many of the horrors present in the world, so many of which have shattered his mind somewhat. The pain could be used as a type of escapism, using the pain and the endorphins to focus himself and escape from some of the things he's seen.
He might be a former adventurer/body guard or such to explain for what he might have seen, or his strength, the muscular degeneration though makes sense.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 5, 2009 23:43:31 GMT -5
So he basically suffers from - PTSD. He uses the whip to ignore the post-traumatic stress. And former adventurer would be good: Adventurer Background * or Bodyguard Background * is good.
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Post by Grubrot Zodd on Mar 6, 2009 11:40:38 GMT -5
yeah, sounds good,I wuld like to start soon though, but apparentley mario wants to start us all at once.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Mar 6, 2009 15:54:11 GMT -5
It'd be nice to do so, I'd like to be there of course but I don't know how feasible that'll be. The whole group could start in a chapter thread, though: We may alternate chapters when it comes to the group.
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